SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PLANT CHEMISTRY AND ETHNOBOTANY |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Welcome Remarks: Elli Wurtzel (City University of New York, USA) / Erich Grotewold (Ohio State University, USA) |
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion Leader: Eloy Rodriguez (Cornell University, USA) Session Overview |
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Jim Simon (Rutgers University, USA)
"Research, discovery and application of natural products for health and medicine" |
8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Dennis Stevenson (The New York Botanical Garden, USA)
"Integrative biology: combining ethnobotany and genomics for medical solutions" |
8:55 pm - 9:15 pm | Jorge M. Vivanco (Colorado State University, USA)
“Rhizosphere interactions mediated by natural products found in root exudates” |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | METABOLIC PROFILING AND SPECTROSCOPIC TOOLS |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Stefan Henkes (Metanomics, Germany) Session Overview |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | Lloyd W. Sumner (Noble Foundation, USA)
"Metabolomics and Integrated Functional Genomics: Tools for gene validation, gene discovery, mechanistic understanding, and hypothesis building" |
10:05 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:15 am | Xuemin (Sam) Wang (University of Missouri-St. Louis & Danforth Plant Science Center, USA)
"Profiling membrane lipids to understand and engineer metabolic and signaling functions of lipid species" |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Ruth Stark (CUNY College of Staten Island, USA)
"Using NMR and AFM to measure structural changes in fruit cuticles and potato tissues" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 1 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS AND MODELING |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Andrew Hanson (U Florida, USA) Session Overview |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | David Gang (U Arizona, USA)
"Investigating plant metabolic pathway regulation in the post-genomics era" |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | John Ohlrogge (Michigan State University, USA)
"Diagnosis and discovery of seed biochemical pathways via metabolic flux analysis" |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Lukas Mueller (Cornell University, USA)
"Plant metabolic databases, present and future" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ENZYME STRUCTURE AND ASSEMBLY OF COMPLEXES |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: George Wagner (U. Kentucky, USA) Session Overview |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | Birger Møller (KVL Royal Veterinary & Agricultural University, Denmark)
"Channeling of intermediates in cyanogenic glucoside synthesis is mediated by metabolon formation" |
10:05 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:15 am | Brenda Winkel (VA Polytechnic Institute, USA)
"Metabolon assembly, enzyme interactions and localization of flavonoid enzymes in Arabidopsis" |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Joseph Noel (Salk Institute, USA)
"Biochemical, structural and metabolic evolution of chemical diversity in plants" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 2 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | METABOLIC COMPARTMENTALIZATION |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Virginia Walbot (Stanford, USA) Session Overview |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | George Wagner (U. Kentucky, USA)
"Modification of carbon flow in specialized, high-production-capacity trichome glands" |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Peter Facchini (U. Calgary, Canada) “The cellular and subcellular compartmentalization of alkaloid biosynthetic pathways” |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Enrico Martinoia (University Zurich, Switzerland)
"The role of the vacuole in cellular compartmentalization" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | FROM GENOMES TO PATHWAYS |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Joe Chappell (Univ. of Kentucky, USA) Session Overview |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | Clint Chapple (Purdue University, USA)
"Genetic approaches to dissecting phenylpropanoid metabolism in Arabidopsis" |
10:05 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:15 am | Kevin Walker (Michigan State University, USA)
"Isolation, characterization, and flux analysis of genes on plant secondary product biosynthetic pathways" |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Yossi Hirschberg (Hebrew University, Israel)
"Studying metabolic regulation of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway through mutational analysis in tomato" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 3 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:15 pm | Business Meeting |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ENGINEERING THE SENSES |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Gad Galili (Weizman Institute, Israel) Session Overview |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Eran Pichersky (U of Michigan, USA)
"Engineering scent" |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Francesca Quattrocchio (Free U Amsterdam, Holland)
"Two pathways, one regulatory network: pigmentation and vacuolar acidification in petal cells" |
8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Short talks selected from Posters |
| Rocio I Diaz De La Garza (U Florida, USA)
“Folate biofortification in tomatoes by engineering the pteridine branch of folate synthesis” |
| Ulrich Genschel (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
“Changes in flux pattern of the central carbohydrate metabolism during kernel development in maize” |
| Girija Raman (UC Davis, USA)
“Structure-function relationship of oxylipin enzymes: An integrative approach via molecular modeling and selective chemical inhibition” |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PLANTS AS CHEMICAL FACTORIES |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Dean Della Penna (Michigan State University, USA) Session Overview |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | Alisdair Fernie (Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Germany)
"Metabolic engineering of tomato fruit quality: forward and reverse approaches" |
10:05 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:15 am | Jacqui Shanks (Iowa State University, USA)
"Metabolic engineering for the production of tryptophan and indole alkaloids in C. roseus" |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Craig Nessler (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA)
"Metabolic engineering of the plant myo-inositol - ascorbic acid pathway for healthier plants and people" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 4 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: A WINDOW TO THE FUTURE |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Roger Beachy (Danforth Center, USA) Session Overview |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Jay Keasling (UC Berkeley, USA)
"Recruiting plant terpene biosynthetic pathways into microbes" |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Hal Alper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Identifying targets for pathway engineering in microorganisms" |
8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Short talks selected from Posters |
| Yuhua Lu (Ohio State U, USA)
“METSCREEN: A chemical biology approach to fill gaps in metabolic pathways” |
| Joseph Jez (Danforth Center, USA)
“Molecular engineering of plant phytochelatin biosynthesis: towards developing phytoremediation tools” |
| Carlos Harjes (Cornell U, USA)
“Characterization of maize kernel carotenoid diversity and identification of functionally distinct alleles by association mapping” |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |